Last updated at 12:56, Monday, 21 January 2013

THERE are many things that can obsess a man; the love of a woman, power over his fellow men or dominion over nations.

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For Simon Liness, his self-confessed fanaticism is with gold.

However, it is not glistering metal that concerns Mr Liness, but the enticing sheen of the perfectly fried potato.

Now the self-confessed spud expert is urging the people of Barrow to get behind him to try to win his Bath Street Fish and Chips another national accolade.

“I am fanatical about it,” said Mr Liness.

“I think I drive all the staff absolutely mad with trying to get the chips just so and if they are not just so then we will have to start again.

“I am really conscious about what I am providing for the public because if your product isn’t a quality product, then you may as well not be in business.”

This attention to detail already earned his shop a National Quality Award from the National Federation of Fish Fryers last February.

The shop was also highly commended in the NFFF’s Champion of Champion awards, which pitted fish and chip high fryers from across the country against one another.

However, Mr Liness now has his eyes set on another prize – to win the “Best Chippy Chips” award run by the Potato Council.

The Bath Street shop is the third most voted for chippy among the contenders at the moment.

Mr Liness said: “We are canvassing like mad in the shop, we have got a voting box and everything, we are the only chip shop in Cumbria to enter.”

Voting for the best chippy chips competition closes on midnight on February 12. People can vote by going to www.chips.lovepotatoes.co.uk.

• Bath Street Fish and Chips has teamed up with the Evening Mail, with the shop offering a free portion of fish and chips to the first 10 customers to show them the special token, which you can cut out from this page of the newspaper. Just take your token along to the shop and you could get a free meal.

First published at 09:59, Monday, 21 January 2013
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk